靈異故事:神秘的咖啡杯 02
The Coffee Cup 02
Each morning I would get the key to the dining room from the front desk and unlock the ornate gate with stained glass panels that served as the dining room’s front door. The dining room always was very dark as its windows were shuttered each night, the sun had not yet risen when I arrived, and the alcove in which the lobby doorway was located did not let light spill in from the lobby, so I would quickly maneuver around the cash register area and grope for the panel of light switches under the counter. Although the dining room had been cleaned by the previous night’s crew, I noticed that there always was a half-drunk cup of coffee left on the table nearest the kitchen.
That table’s chair at the cup’s position always was pulled back as if someone had just been sitting there. This never fazed me, but it struck me as peculiar and rather rude that someone would leave a dirty cup like that. The kitchen crew would show up just a little after I had, but they entered through the loading dock doors at the back as they were not supposed to be seen by hotel guests. The other busboy who opened on the weekends told me he often found a cup on Saturday mornings but never on Sundays.
神秘的咖啡杯 02
每天早上,我都在前臺(tái)拿餐廳的鑰匙,打開餐廳的前門,那是一扇華麗的,鑲嵌著彩色玻璃的大門.餐廳總是很黑,因?yàn)槊客泶皯舳急话偃~窗遮得嚴(yán)嚴(yán)實(shí)實(shí)的,而且我到的時(shí)候,太陽(yáng)都沒有出來.大廳的入口處在一個(gè)凹進(jìn)去的地方,所以大廳的光也到不了餐廳,所以我總是很快地轉(zhuǎn)到收銀臺(tái),在柜臺(tái)下面摸到燈的開關(guān).雖然昨晚上班的員工已經(jīng)打掃過餐廳了,可我每次都能看到離廚房最近的一張餐桌上放著一杯喝了一半的咖啡,而且那張餐桌的椅子也總是被拉了出來,好像有人剛剛在那坐過一樣.可這從來沒有讓我覺得害怕,我只覺得奇怪而且很不禮貌,居然有人就把一個(gè)臟杯子這樣放在桌上.廚房的工作人員就比我晚一會(huì)兒到,因?yàn)椴荒鼙痪频甑目腿丝匆?所以他們都是從后面裝貨的門進(jìn)來的.另一個(gè)負(fù)責(zé)周末開門的服務(wù)生告訴我他也經(jīng)常在周六早餐晨看到一個(gè)杯子,可周日就沒有.
